Chile Approves Resolution to Adopt Law Boycotting Zionist Settlement Goods
SANTIAGO (Dispatches) – The Chilean Senate has approved a resolution calling on President Sebastian Pinera Echenique to adopt a law boycotting settlement goods and banning commercial activity with companies that operate in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The motion passed with 29 votes in favor and six abstentions, no votes were cast against the move.
The resolution also called on the government to promote legislation that would ban all Zionist settlement products; prohibit any company involved in the Israeli occupation from benefiting from any agreement or bid signed by Chile; apply tourism guidelines for the Zionist regime and Palestine that would not allow the promotion of trips to the occupied territories using pictures of East al-Quds or Bethlehem "among other Palestinian cities”; forbid any kind of cooperation, including monetary, with the regime’s colonization of occupied Palestine; and ensure that no tax benefits will be afforded to any organization operating in Chile if it is involved in the occupation of Palestine.
President of the Palestinian National Council Salim Al-Zanoun thanked the Senate for its decision which he said constituted a victory for the right of "our people to establish an independent state with its capital, al-Quds, on the borders of June 4, 1967”, and affirming the international consensus regarding the application of international law and the terms of reference of the so-called peace process.
On July 2, Chile, the country with the largest population of Palestinians in Latin America, lit up its Telephone Tower with the Palestinian kefiyeh in support of the Palestinian people and rejection of the regime’s plans to annex some 30 percent of the occupied West Bank
The motion passed with 29 votes in favor and six abstentions, no votes were cast against the move.
The resolution also called on the government to promote legislation that would ban all Zionist settlement products; prohibit any company involved in the Israeli occupation from benefiting from any agreement or bid signed by Chile; apply tourism guidelines for the Zionist regime and Palestine that would not allow the promotion of trips to the occupied territories using pictures of East al-Quds or Bethlehem "among other Palestinian cities”; forbid any kind of cooperation, including monetary, with the regime’s colonization of occupied Palestine; and ensure that no tax benefits will be afforded to any organization operating in Chile if it is involved in the occupation of Palestine.
President of the Palestinian National Council Salim Al-Zanoun thanked the Senate for its decision which he said constituted a victory for the right of "our people to establish an independent state with its capital, al-Quds, on the borders of June 4, 1967”, and affirming the international consensus regarding the application of international law and the terms of reference of the so-called peace process.
On July 2, Chile, the country with the largest population of Palestinians in Latin America, lit up its Telephone Tower with the Palestinian kefiyeh in support of the Palestinian people and rejection of the regime’s plans to annex some 30 percent of the occupied West Bank